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Reviews of books recently added to our stock. The reviews are kindly supplied by Joan Stephens.

Now a free-lance journalist, Joan Stephens is a former Women’s Editor and Features Editor of the Leicester Mercury. She has interviewed many local and national personalities, written a weekly opinion column, been a cookery writer, a restaurant critic and a book reviewer – which she lists as her favourite job.

Joan enjoys reviewing a variety of books each month – fiction and non-fiction, adults’ and children’s – in association with Kibworth Library, the Kibworth Bookshop and the Kibworth Chronicle.

There is no doubt that the Tudor court has been a rich
source of material for historians and novelists alike and Alison Weir is in her
element, both in guiding her readers through the intricacies and intrigues of
court life and giving them vivid descriptions of the palaces the courtiers inhabited
and the […]

I’ll be honest. I picked up this book planning to skim
through it for a short review. Two chapters in, I couldn’t put it down, read it
right through and didn’t want it to end. It is described as a children’s book
and was shortlisted for a 2018 Costa Award. But it […]

In a Hampstead street on a Monday morning a young mother is
walking her dog, her baby and her toddler up to the Pond. There is a sudden
flash of speeding cars, the squeal of brakes resulting in a massive car crash.
In the ensuing chaos there are traumatised children, injured adults […]